Anchor quandry - solutions please

[Hurricane]

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I would call Simon Cowell and sing "Unchained Melody"!!

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Praps Simon Collis would be more use!!

 

[Doolittle]

Anchors / keys, at's all the same, drag them to the venue and welcome them to the wife swap party. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[cliff]

Either knock the chain off with a hammer / winch ahndle etc or get the bolt croppers out, crop the chain, lift the other anchor and either give it back to the other boat or keep it as another "spare". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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[longjohnsilver]

Get the hacksaw out, cut the chain and pull up the bit with the other anchor on it, after all you''ve always wanted a kedge. Then wave to other boat as you leave.

 

[gjgm]

I assume you mean so firmly jammed that you cant knock it off the chain, otherwise there isnt much of a puzzle? You've either got to undo your anchor, or cut his chain. You'd better have a chat with the other boat and agree.

 

[duncan]

come on this is the tip of a danforth ..........

1. hit with hammer
2. hit harder
3. holding anchor fluke lever chain off with a stilson or similar - on many bow fillings this will be easiest with the anchor fully stowed.
4. In extreme get out the plumbers blowtorch and heat link - but I can't believe it would get that far.
5. finally, in the best traditions, saw of the tip (it's only going to be a tiny bit in the chain link) with hacksaw or dremel cutting tool (brush any metal dust off boat throughly!) Take anchor home to shed and refinish to 2 matching flukes - or better still stick in locker for a kedge and get a nice new sparocelta

 

[PCUK]

Angle grinder through link and hand anchor end back to owner. New non-weld link in the cut chain - job done, no crisis.
Maybe it's time to end the "What Now Skipper" series!!!

 

[LordJohn]

Full power

 

[tcm]

Disaster into triumph, again

Of course, you shouldn't be in this situation if at all possible - you were first down and if stayingon the boat you'd have made sure others don't foul your anchor.

Does it come up with the rest of their chain as well? Or just "a link on one tip" as per the text?

If it's just a link, well, forget it.

If it's got the rest of their chain, you hold the strain of their chain with a rope and let off your go yer chain and, or tw%t it with hammer to remove it.

BUT as far as i read the text...i was alone in this bay, right? So how have got a bit of chain *under* my chain, on the tipe even? That chain must have been down on the seabad beforehand, realy? Cos if it had been a later boat , i'd have jammed and rattled but not reallypicked up their chain like this, definitely not with spike thru the chain. The text makes no mention of another nearby boats in the bay sqawking, which they surely would if i've actually lifted a lump of their anchor chain to sea surface. But there is no such protest. So I reckon we could easily have won ourselves a spare kedge! Hurrah! Or at least some chain. or, as a trick qustion, just a single blimmin link, it depends...

By the time you have done this lot, the cloud will likely have gone.

 

[andyball]

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Maybe it's time to end the "What Now Skipper" series!!!

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Definitely, Yes - they are scraping the bottom now. It'll be pirates boarding our unfortunate vessel next.

 

[duncan]

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Maybe it's time to end the "What Now Skipper" series!!!

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Definitely, Yes - they are scraping the bottom now. It'll be pirates boarding our unfortunate vessel next.

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more like ' you are heading back into Poole from a great day out on the Jurasic coast...........the light's fading and a large black rib appears to be heading towards you...........